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...Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi, lasted only one more round. Hot-handed Sunday golfers blazed for a day or two and faded. The last of them, Des Moines's cigar-chomping Meat Salesman Sargio Fontanini, kept opponents off balance by losing his lit stogie in the rough, but Purdue's basketball co-captain, Joe Campbell, caught him in the quarterfinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Still Champ | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Anybody who thinks that wooden-faced Audie Murphy is trying to play the man in front of the cigar store is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Have We Done Enough?" Aboard the plane. Stevenson donned horn-rimmed glasses and busily worked over speech drafts while Estes sucked at a cigar, still in its wrapper, then put on his black eyeshade and slippers, threw his long legs across an arm rest and slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thunder & Rainbow | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Habits: Prodigious cigar smoker (Churchill sends him his Havana specials by the hundreds) and wine connoisseur. Follows tennis and cricket "not as a fan but as a fanatic," and has been known to adjourn state conferences in London to attend Davis Cup and cricket Test matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: PUTTING THE CASE TO NASSER | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Good-Time Maggie. Heavyset, handsome Warren Grant Magnuson, 51, is in many ways Langlie's exact opposite. Maggie Magnuson (who says privately of Langlie's piety: "We better watch that guy at Easter time") is a cigar-puffing, Cadillackadaisical, free-roaming bachelor. Like Langlie, he has a Scandinavian background. But there the similarity ceases. A Washingtonian who knows both sums up the difference: "Art Langlie is the right-living, stern-conscienced, Sunday-go-to-meeting Scandinavian. Maggie is the ever-loving, good-time-Charlie Scandinavian come out of the woods on Saturday night for fun and sociability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Fork in the Road | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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